11 August 2009

Key man signs for the opposition

Monday morning, following the first weekend of the season. We hardly needed a boost. But a quick call from an alert reporter put us ahead of the field on the Rickie Lambert transfer. And from the figures on the website, it pays to be first.

The Middlesbrough rag had run a tale linking Lambert with Boro. The first comment on their site alerted them to the breaking news at the other end of the country. The link? Ours. Mere moments after it had hit our site.

A few paras, a quick video and a poll later we had a debate raging between genuine Bristol Rovers fans and their gleeful cross town rivals Bristol City as well as constructive analysis of the board's decision to sell and the player's decision to leave.

People are watching, reading, devouring. Newspaper circulations may be declining but our appetite for information is greater than ever, just in a different forum.

If you don't already, jump into the world of Google alerts and have the breaking news on any topic at your fingertips. Hopefully you might see some Bristol Evening Post articles near the top of the list if you're looking at anything Bristol related and hopefully some of the new readers from yesterday will stick around and be entertained by our other content.


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